Weekender: Win A Lightseekers Starter Bundle & American Football Hits The Tabletop
January 27, 2018 by dracs
We've got an awesome Weekender for you today where we learn more about the tabletop game, Lightseekers, a fantastic and quick to play card game.
Weekender Podcast Download
There's also an interview with the folks behind the Forth Quarter Football Kickstarter to find out what it was like bringing American Football to the tabletop - oh, and much more too!
Updates
We have a few things to point you towards from this week on the website...
- Joan Of Arc Pledge Manager Open - Go and check out the pledge manager packed with goodies.
- Gaming In Vietnam - You can check out the first article in a wargaming series exploring Vietnam.
- Conquest Exclusive Artwork - See what the Para Bellum folks have got lined up with their new factions.
...make sure to check out what we've talked about and delve deeper into the comments on each.
Lightseekers Chat + Win A Two-Player Starter Kit
We chat with Benny and Alan from Play Fusion to talk about Lightseekers and uncover more about the game. We have loads of awesome content planned for them so watch this space.
Additionally, you could win yourself a starter bundle of Lightseekers goodies...
- 2x Starter Decks (winners choice), 2x Super Booster Sets (5 Boosters In Each Pack)
All you have to do is Come Up With An Order, Three Elements & A Hero for your set and we'll randomly pick a winner from all those who entered!
Competition Winner - Guild Ball Dark Harvest
We delved into the comments and have a laugh about your team creations for Guild Ball. With that in mind, we also announced the winner of the limited edition Dark Harvest set - make sure to Claim Your Prize!
News
We get stuck into some news from the website...
- Mighty Greek Armies - Delve into two big new Starter Armies from Warlord Games.
- Adeptus Custodes Releases - Check out the newest releases for Warhammer 40,000.
- Stalingrad In Ruins + New Sci-Fi Buildings - See what you think of some new 4Ground releases.
- Leia & The Fleet Arrives - Some new releases coming soon as expansion content in Star Wars: Legion.
...what caught your eye from the news this week?
Fourth Quarter Football Interview
Currently, on Kickstarter, we have a look at the campaign and the background on Fourth Quarter Football. This is a great way to get the game down onto the tabletop with realistic looking miniatures and tight mechanics.
Make sure to check out their campaign for more information.
Kickstarter
Talking of Kickstarter, we have another game that we reckon you should check out...
- Tiny Epic Zombies - Prepare your ITEMeeples and start killing zombies!
This looks like a lot of fun, with loads of replayability and it appears to have won Justin over for sure!
Have a great weekend!
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The Weekender, But it’s Frid…*looks at clock* Bugger.
Happy Weekend!
The Weekender is up that mean it is time to go to bed … happy weekend
It’s the Weekend!
I know I shouldn’t be awake yet – or don’t need to be.
Sod it… Roll VR!
Jeremie BT at http://www.figone.fr always has some cool projects on the go – tends to work on larger scale models but stunning. Has an excellent paint technique book like Angel and you can catch him at Salute.
Talking of Angel Giraldez, it’s been fascinating to see him and his studio adapting his techniques to a variety of games and models such as the Hate KS.
3 Irish guys talking about US Football us either the saddest or funniest thing I’ve ever seen… Oilers LoL The Houston Oilers were last in the NFL in 1996. Now there is a team called the Edmonton Oilers… But they’re a ice hockey team 🙂 The Cleveland team Justin was thinking of is called the Browns and they ended the season 0-16 so that is the biggest joke!
Hey come on, man. 0-16 for Cleveland is a “perfect” season! 😀 😀 😀
Of course there the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the first (and still only???) team to have a perfect season in both the regular season and playoffs. Sports is hardly my thing, but it’s history, damn it, so I’m supposed to talk about it! 😀 😀 Besides, people down here in South Florida still talk about it.
The only Gridiron football game I recall being any good was one back in the 70s which I played with some American friends at an army base in Europe (when I was an army brat). It played on a vibrating surface which caused the players to move (shuffle) in a curve you could set… Can’t recall how the passing worked, but it was all about plotting the plays…
Just looked on t’interweb- of course there are videos and websites dedicated to it, it was called Electric Football. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Football
Not a miniatures game but I always enjoyed playing Paydirt
Oh – you’ve just opened a can of worms referring to the # character as hashtag!
If anything it’s the ‘hash’ symbol (hashtag is something starting with the symbol originally from twitter)although there are many that will insist that it”s the ‘pound’ symbol… That’s a pound in weight rather than a pound in currency, which of course involves the £ character.
Even more controversial are Microsoft developers calling it the ‘sharp’ symbol, as in C#… don’t get me started otherwise I’ll be ending my sentences with an interrobang !?!¿
To be fair, the symbol is used in musical notation to indicate ”sharp”, so Microsoft is not completely off. But it is definitely hash, not pound.
Is there anywhere in the uk that you can get those colour shift paints?
@pagan8th order them direct had several orders with zero issues
Lightseekers for me would be Dread v Storm.
Bring on the thunder
@dignity …. 6mm mate that American Civil War building is the one I gave @Lloyd to prove stuff looks good at 6mm… Seems like I am going to have to start your education into 6mm …lol
There is quite a few of us over here in NI doing 6mm in various periods. Mage try and get Arun up to BoW one Sunday when there gaming to show it off…..If my new order ever arrives that is
That Lightseeker game looks actually quite fun. Also good to draw in people not that involved in the hobby overall.
Lightseeker Order:
Order: Infernal
Elements: Corruption – Destruction – Temptation
Hero: Zarkhan
Studio McVey has kind of shut down, Mike joined CMON last year and is currently working on HATE.
I hope it’s not the bits that Justin has chopped off that end up in the 4Ground hopper.
What a great pleasure again to watch a weekender.
I for one preferred a football game with the real football, not the American version. We could see, as managers, epic figures like Justin Mourinho, Sam Wenger and Jürgen Drummond. And all the teams we like from all the leagues of the world. Finally, if every player had a card in the game you could possibly also have a card trading game. However, Panini won´t like this.
Ah, and Star Wars: Legions. The tension has reached boiling point. Need to take my pills forthwith …
My order for Lightseekers would be Psychic.
The elements would be Telepathic, Telekinetic and Pyrokinetic.
My hero would be Occipita.
Lightseekers is a great game! I bought an intro pack recently and would love to expand that with some new starter decks! If I could add a new order to the game, I’d add “Stealth” which would have elements Subterfuge, Ambush and Assassination. I’d like this order to introduce a new mechanic to the game where some cards are played face down and trigger when opponents play certain cards so for example when someone attacks, they take unexpected damage in retaliation. This order would also be particularly good at getting around damage reduction cards in play. My hero’s name is… Read more »
I roughly remember Magic coming out, playing a game or two. Also the GW Mail Order rumour mill telling of (the one, the only) John Stallard in the boardroom tearing up Magic card after Magic card shouting “Blasphemy! Blasphemy!”. (Subtext: a successful fantasy game WE didn’t produce.)
Probably apocraphal, definitely believable.
Also love the look of 4th Quarter. I know at least one other tabletop gamer who’s enough of an American Football nerd to love this.
My only reservation is resin minis in a board game. I’ve winced at the way (some) boardgamers handle even plastic painted minis and wouldn’t let (some of) them near a resin model.
PS 49ers++. It’s not been easy the last few years but next year is our year!
Sounds like someone’s hoping for the next Joe Montana to arrive! 😀 😀
I’m hoping he arrived at the end of last season 🙂
Lightseeker Order: (entering for my daughters).
Order: Destruction
Elements: Void, Chaos, Entropy
Hero: Nocturn
Huston Oilers moved to a new city and became the Titans about 15 years ago.
Your thinking about the Cleveland Browns.
Superbowl February 4.
The average lineman is between 280 to 350 pounds.
It’s ok guys it’s our game. If you have questions just ask.
They moved twice, and were the Tennessee Oilers for a couple of years before becoming the Titans in 1999; the year of the Music City Miracle and ‘one yard short’. See, we know a bit on this side of the Atlantic :p
Mr Somegeezer you have a good quarterback again. That’s pretty much all you needed. Good luck in the draft.
It’s amazing the difference he’s made. I loved watching Kapernick, he was so hectic, but someone who can pass? This is a game-changer!
Now even I would not be able to do worse than the local football team 0 wins all season – ladies and gentlemen I give you the Cleveland Browns, the team so bad they try to get them to move to Baltimore (inside joke) – the Oilers seem to be a Canadian hockey team, but they should do better on the football field than the Browns
We all tried to warn you, @rasmus , when you told us you were moving to Cleveland. We all tried to warn you! 😀 😀 😀
I know… The mistake by the Lake, the burning river …
And don’t forget a city in the rustbelt with a team called the Browns … what are the colours?!
Orange and brown … just try that combi on a mini
Aside from the Browns, Cleveland have something going for it, great food and drink, loads of microbreweries – the Rockhall (Rock and roll hall of fame) and me
As we say in England: oh mate!
To the credit of the locals the had a parade in artic temperature – for the “perfect” season
ha! I love that!
Another great show guys. Lightseekers would be another great game to play with my Granddaughters. Will Lightseekeras be demo’ed anywhere in the USA. I’d love to check it our first hand. Again thanks!
Hey irondragon6 we are demoing it all round the USA at the moment it’s just a matter of when we get there! We’ll be at a lot of the big events this year including PAX and GenCon as well as lots of hobby shops. My advice would be to head over to http://www.Lightseekers.cards and from there you should be able to see our future dates for visits.
Going to Origins as well ?
Ben’s Secret Nudes! Cmon guys stop messin with his feed.
I laughed my butt off. Maybe next week we can see “Ben’s secret robbery plans” or “Ben’s erotic boudoir photo shoot”.